Tertiary palaeochannel containing North Maslins Sands is incised in Cambrian - Precambrian bedrock, capped by clays and lignite. Investigations by gravity and seismic surveys and rotary drilling, have reduced the potential of the channel as an...

The Telford Basin is an asymmetrically shaped synclinal basin containing sediments of upper Triassic-Jurassic age, which cover a 25 square km area. Sub-bituminous coal occurs in three major series of seams which are informally termed the Leigh Creek...

598 new stations were established in 1987 gravity survey. It revealed 5 gravity anomalies with potential for underground storage targets. Seismic reflection is recommended over 4 of these areas to establish correlation between the gravity method and...

The Barabba Gravity Low in the Northern Adelaide Plains has been interpreted as a southerly dipping trough-like depression in Precambrian bedrock, infilled with Tertiary and covered by a blanket of Quaternary sediments. All margins of this feature are...

Geophysical and geological surveys and drilling in the Northern Adelaide Plains of South Australia have located a Tertiary palaeochannel incised within Proterozoic bedrock. Present data indicate favourable reservoir and seal conditions for the...

The electric vehicle option is compared to other transport options in the context of energy policy. Sufficient electrical energy is available to meet future demand for electric vehicles. The cost of generating the increased supply and the tariffs...

Hydrocarbons in soil - gas, extracted from auger holes were caught in traps immersed in liquid nitrogen and later analysed by gas chromatography. Results are sufficiently encouraging to warrant further work.

Detailed gravity survey indicates a Tertiary palaeochannel, 1 km wide, incised into Cambrian - Precambrian bedrock. This depression is difficult to correlate with bedrock depressions in the Port Gawler area. The palaeochannel may be of interest for...

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The ethane, propane, butanes, and pentanes concentrations of shallow soil samples collected in 1975 from 1070 sites over the Permian Cooper Basin have been analysed. The samples were taken at a spacing of 300m along two regional traverses; on a widely...

Exploration for a suitable underground gas storage target in the Northern Adelaide Plains was initiated in 1964. Prior to the present investigation, four other areas have been examined and rejected as target areas, mainly due to the shallow depth of...

The Northern Power Station, presently under construction, is the third power station to be built at Port Augusta. Two previous stations (Playford A and B) were constructed during the 1950s, although investigations into the feasibility of using the...

Wilkinson 1 stratigraphic well was drilled by the SA Department of Mines and Energy in mid-1978, about 250 km south-west of Coober Pedy, in the Tallaringa Trough. Here a thick section of Cambrian claystones, limestones and evaporites, at least 594 m...

A geological mapping and drilling programme has shown that the making of a tunnel through Wylie Ridge is geologically feasible. The route will pass through folded quartzite and siltstone, and the rock mass possesses various discontinuities which will...

This statistical report for 1988/89 is intended to provide basic information for monitoring changes in the energy sector. Statistics include energy sales, prices, flows, intensity and per capita use, mining, trade and royalties, use of insulation and...

The Departments method for estimating and reporting gas reserves has been revised to include estimates of tight gas as well as providing more accurate estimates of conventionally recoverable gas reserves. This has included a new method for...

A joint project between Dr I.G. Watmuff (consultant) and the Department of Mines and Energy, South Australia, to appraise the soil air CO2/O2 technique as a guide to concealed oxidising sulphides, has been completed. Testing was conducted over known...

Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) is being developed as a solution to provide an emergency town water supply in a location where blue- green algae make River Murray water unfit for domestic use during summer. Algae-free river water will be injected...

The Petroleum Division of Mines and Energy South Australia (MESA) engaged GPA Engineering to provide cost estimates to feasibility study level for processing and transporting products from new gas discoveries in the Cooper Basin, both on a stand-alone...

Potential for ASR at the untested The Levels site is identified in up to 3 Quaternary and 2 Tertiary aquifers, depending on the validity of interpreted aquifer properties as interpolated from nearby tested and operating ASR sites. A site-specific...